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 Texas : Features : Columns : "Texas Tales"
Oddities
by Mike Cox
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Even during the Depression, it’s hard to imagine a 55-year-old building being sold for only $1.

But that’s what the Commissioner’s Court of Houston County sold their 1883-vintage courthouse for back in 1939. There was a catch, of course.

The new owner of the structure had to agree to tear it down immediately so make room for construction of a new courthouse. The county found a buyer, who presumably recouped his investment by selling material salvaged from the building, and the building was razed.

County officials conducted their business in the nearby Crockett Hotel until the new courthouse was completed. That one, a stone, Moderne-style structure which cost $200,000 to build, still stands on the square in Crockett. next page
 
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